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Delphi and The Rabbit Hole by Liran Shahar - liran_shahar@simpletech.co.il Everyone around in the developer's community is buzzing the new magic words "Mobility" and "Connectivity", it seems like every hardware manufacturer is secretly developing the next generation of mobile hardware and communication devices, but what about us? Are we Delphi developers prepared? I have looked about a little in the newsgroups and came across few FAQ about the main issue of mobile computing which is lower resources, by lower resources I mainly mean less memory available for our programs, but what can we do about it? Aha, we can do plenty... I this short article I will take a small tour in the rabbit's hole and try to fit Delphi into it. I was looking for a way to write small Delphi programs with less memory usage and less resources, so just like any good (modest as always...) programmer I have "comb" the web and found the perfect thing named "Delphi Applet". The page explained that an "Applet" is a small, specific Delphi program that "costs" us almost nothing in resources, I kept on reading and then it hit me... It was freeware...and open source initiative... The library, named "XCL", is an open source library for those of us who think that sometimes Delphi is just too big to fit in, and need a lighter program. The main guideline of this library is "Don't use what you don't need", meaning that you will probably will be required to write more code but just to what you specifically need. I have to admit at the beginning this library took me back to the store (pre-Delphi) age but things got a whole lot better after a while with its visual expert that gave it the RAD dimension. You can download this library and check out the work at: XCL site (http://members.xoom.com/mr_bonanzas) Last thought: since this library is an open public service maybe you can give it a hand? I am sure the guys behind XCL will appreciate it a lot. If you really like to know what the hell I was babbling about in the first section of the article, take a look at the following sites: TransMeta (www.transmeta.com)
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